The Spanish Prisoner

“It's the oldest con in the book.”

Joe Ross (Campbell Scott) has built a secret process that could make the company he works for a fortune, and he wants the credit and the payout he believes he is owed. Then Jimmy Dell (Steve Martin), a wealthy and easy stranger, takes an interest in him, and David Mamet lets the two men talk in clipped, careful lines. Joe's assistant Susan (Rebecca Pidgeon) watches from the next desk, the one person near him who seems to want nothing from him.